IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Archepolis(?). Circa 459 BC. AR Tetartemorion (6mm, 0.15 g, 12h). Bearded male head right, wearing laurel wreath / Eagle flying right within linear square in incuse square. Cf. Hauck & Aufhäuser 18, 207 (eagle flying left, A below); cf. Triton X, lot 298. Fine, porous, struck from worn dies. Rare.For similar trihemiobols of Archepolis, but eagle left with ethnic, cf. Nollé & Wenninger A 2a = Gorny & Mosch 102, 254 and Triton V, 1425.
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